Idealism: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Two classic books on idealism in English are A.C. Ewing, Idealism: A Critical Survey, 3rd ed. (1974); and R.F. Alfred Hoernlé, Idealism as a Philosophy (1927).
More recent scholarship includes Henry E. Allison, Kant’s Transcendental Idealism, rev. and enlarged ed. (2004); Frederick C. Beiser, German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism, 1781–1801 (2002); David Boucher and Andrew Vincent, British Idealism: A Guide for the Perplexed (2012); Georges Dicker, Berkeley’s Idealism: A Critical Examination (2011); Will Dudley, Understanding German Idealism (2007); Jeremy Dunham, Iain Hamilton Grant, and Sean Watson, Idealism: The History of a Philosophy (2011); W.J. Mander, British Idealism: A History (2011); Terry Pinkard, German Philosophy, 1760–1860: The Legacy of Idealism (2002); Robert B. Pippin, Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations (1997); and Samuel C. Rickless, Berkeley’s Argument for Idealism (2013).
Useful anthologies are Karl Ameriks (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism (2000); Brian O’Connor and Georg Mohr (eds.), German Idealism: An Anthology and Guide (2006), a collection of texts by idealist philosophers; and Espen Hammer (ed.), German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives (2007).
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Article History
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| Article title updated for style. | Nov 01, 2026 | ||
| Invalidated site: PhilArchive - About Idealism. | Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Gresham College - The Triumph of Idealism. | May 29, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Idealism, the lost spirit of medicine. | Sep 27, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Implications of Idealism on Science (PDF). | Aug 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: K12 LibreTexts - Materialism and Behaviorism. | Aug 13, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The effects of idealism and relativism on the moral judgement of social vs. environmental issues, and their relation to self-reported pro-environmental behaviours. | Jul 05, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CFR Education - Idealism Versus Realism. | Feb 28, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Queensborough Community College - Idealism. | Jan 11, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Lawrence University - The Refutation of Idealism. | Nov 12, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Idealism as an educational philosophy of mathematics teachers in Al Ain City Schools of the United Arab Emirates. | Sep 20, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: PhilArchive - About Idealism. | Jun 27, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Cambridge - Sociology Research - The Impact of Idealism. | Oct 31, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Notre Dame - Idealism: The History of a Philosophy. | Sep 22, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Learn Religions - The History of Idealism. | Jun 16, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Nature - Abstraction and idealism. | Feb 27, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: K12 LibreTexts - Materialism and Behaviorism. | Feb 11, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - What is Idealism? (PDF). | Dec 30, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Idealism. | Sep 13, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Nov 01, 2020 | ||
| Media added. | Oct 27, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Basic of Philosophy - Idealism. | Mar 12, 2018 | ||
| Bibliography thoroughly revised and updated. | Jul 15, 2015 | ||
| Article revised. | Mar 23, 2015 | ||
| Photographs added. | Jul 01, 2010 | ||
| Bibliography revised for stylistic consistency with text. | Jul 01, 2010 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jul 01, 2010 | ||
| Birth/death information updated. | Nov 13, 2008 | ||
| Article revised. | Sep 25, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 26, 1999 |